ethnl_string_array_t names,
                              struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, bool *mod)
 {
+       u32 *orig_bitmap, *saved_bitmap = NULL;
        struct nlattr *bit_attr;
        bool no_mask;
+       bool dummy;
        int rem;
        int ret;
 
        }
 
        no_mask = tb[ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_NOMASK];
-       if (no_mask)
-               ethnl_bitmap32_clear(bitmap, 0, nbits, mod);
+       if (no_mask) {
+               unsigned int nwords = DIV_ROUND_UP(nbits, 32);
+               unsigned int nbytes = nwords * sizeof(u32);
+
+               /* The bitmap size is only the size of the map part without
+                * its mask part.
+                */
+               saved_bitmap = kcalloc(nwords, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (!saved_bitmap)
+                       return -ENOMEM;
+               memcpy(saved_bitmap, bitmap, nbytes);
+               ethnl_bitmap32_clear(bitmap, 0, nbits, &dummy);
+               orig_bitmap = saved_bitmap;
+       } else {
+               orig_bitmap = bitmap;
+       }
 
        nla_for_each_nested(bit_attr, tb[ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS], rem) {
                bool old_val, new_val;
                if (nla_type(bit_attr) != ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS_BIT) {
                        NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, bit_attr,
                                            "only ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS_BIT allowed in ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS");
-                       return -EINVAL;
+                       ret = -EINVAL;
+                       goto out;
                }
                ret = ethnl_parse_bit(&idx, &new_val, nbits, bit_attr, no_mask,
                                      names, extack);
                if (ret < 0)
-                       return ret;
-               old_val = bitmap[idx / 32] & ((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
+                       goto out;
+               old_val = orig_bitmap[idx / 32] & ((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
                if (new_val != old_val) {
                        if (new_val)
                                bitmap[idx / 32] |= ((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
                }
        }
 
-       return 0;
+       ret = 0;
+out:
+       kfree(saved_bitmap);
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static int ethnl_compact_sanity_checks(unsigned int nbits,